(Raw Story) A woman serving a short sentence in a Houston, Texas, jail for possession of marijuana died in custody over the weekend, and officers are not saying how or why.
The 29-year-old, identified as Theresa Anthony, had expected to spend just two and a half weeks behind bars in the Harris County lockup. On Saturday, Cynthia Prude, Theresa’s mother, received a phone call from the jail’s Chaplain informing her that her daughter was dead.
Theresa Anthony, victim of prohibition
Prude has not been allowed to see the body, nor has the Harris County Sheriff’s Department even spoken with her, according to area media.
On 4 June 2009, the Justice Department concluded a 15 months-long investigation into the Harris County facility and determined in the subsequent 27-page report that over 142 prisoners had died there since 2001. Most expired due to lack of medical care, the report claims.
The Associated Press noted that after the Justice Department declined to make its findings public, The Houston Chronicle was able to obtain a copy, which it released on the Internet.
Wait a minute, how is this possible? According to our last Drug Czar, John Walters, finding a non-violent offender in jail or prison for simple possession is like finding a unicorn.
Theresa Anthony could be you or me. Or could have been a young Barack Obama. Just another dead unicorn, expiring in a cage for the crime of preferring the safest choice of social relaxant or therapeutic medicine.
President Obama, if you can stop giggling for a moment, could you please put “legalization” back on the table? Director Kerlikowske, could you please find the time to add “decriminalization” to your vocabulary? You have the power to see to it that Theresa Anthony is the last unicorn to die in a cell.
Cynthia…I’m so sorry for your loss.
How can anyone in that state do anything other than be in front of that prison/jail demanding an answer!
How many more prohibition deaths will it take for these legislators and sheeple to wake the F__k up?
How many good, hard working, family having citizens need to die before we relize prohibition is wrong and killing our citizens?
Why isnt this a top news stroy and why isnt Washington, if not Obama himself looking into this death?
I truly think we are going to see more violence on the part of prohibitionests, cops and prisons before we see a law that changes all this. They are mad and are on the ropes, they know dam well they are losing this battle and they are swinging at everything and everyone trying to gain control over it again.
Dam!
where is the decency? if electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
~ Mark Twain
So Sad…. Bless her!!!
I hope the “cowards” get theres for this crime.